{"id":6371,"date":"2013-09-07T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2013-09-08T06:53:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T10:53:01","slug":"oh-yeah-this-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/09\/07\/oh-yeah-this-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, yeah—this again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cat on heat vent. Photo: kidmissile<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

And just like that, the cat curls up in front of the heat register, I want hot water—not cold—to wash my hands and I put on a jacket before leaving for work.<\/p>\n

Somehow, this feels more right than the opposite transition in spring. When I stop wearing the coat in April, I fumble for weeks trying to find a place to put all those things that fit so easily in all those pockets.<\/p>\n

When I first moved here years ago, people described North Country cold with the wonderfully succinct: \u201cnine months of winter and three months of bad sledding weather.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not like that anymore, but this is still a wintry place. Heat and humidity are the anomalies, brief like life and bookended by long, dark cold.<\/p>\n

The buzz of summer visitors\u2014from mosquito to Manhattanite\u2014will soon leave us. Our tribe of hardy and flannel-clad stoics will send up thin wisps of steam and smoke, from hot coffee, chainsaws and woodstoves\u2014and our own mouths. And this, just as much as a blossom or splash in the lake, is proof of life. But the contrast is clearer in winter. Everything is.<\/p>\n

As the leaves start falling, we\u2019re getting into the season of seeing through. And for us, that\u2019s getting back to normal.<\/p>\n

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